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The PA31 Navajo twin nicely expands the Carenado line of GA aircraft for X-Plane 11. We're lucky to have Sean McLeod available to review it, as he has extensive experience flying the Navajo early in his professional career. He found the plane to be beautifully rendered and accurately brought back many happy memories of flying the real thing.

After posting our "Best Of 2018" article featuring our reviewers' favorite payware, the comments we got were "what about freeware" and "don't forget FS2004". So, thanks to Robin Meyerowitz who stepped up and put together his list of favorite FS2004 freeware for 2018. Maybe not exactly a "best of" but it represents a great collection of FS2004 add-ons in a variety of categories.

X-Plane aircraft designer Keith Walton is known for only one plane, the Grob Tutor 115E. But it's unusual in that it actual lives up to its "tutor" name, as his plane is being flown in X-Plane by actual student pilots in the UK Air Cadet program. Learn more about Keith and how this came about in our interview.

If you are someone that enjoys watching flight replays, or judging your landings from different angles around the aircraft, or even thinking about uploading some of your FSX and P3D flights online, then FlightControlReplay is a tool that you should find very useful. Now up to version 4 and in active development by author Fabio Merlo, reviewer Michael Haayward was impressed with what it has to offer, and offers his impressions in both words and a video.

The team at FlightSim.Com, would like to present a list of add-ons which we feel represent some of the best of 2018. These are our own personal picks, in consultation with our reviewers but we feel that while we may have missed other worthy add-ons all of these represent some of the best available for FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane.

The JARDesign 330 for X-Plane 10 and 11 lets you be a pilot of a modern airliner with perfect 3D, realisting flight model and advanced systems, according to JARDesign descriptions. In this video review Wycliffe Barrett takes the plane for a ride and offers his perspective.

The Piper Cub is a classic and the Piper Super Cub is an even better version of that aircraft. ASDG offers a package with four variants, with different engines, tires and even floats. giving the X-Plane pilot a variety of ways to fly. Shawn Weigelt found the plane less than perfect but still undeniably a good value.

Reviewer Tony Vallillo offers us a history of the headset as used in aviation, going back the days of the leather helmet. Headsets improved greatly over the years and are now also available for flight simulator use. The Thrustmaster T-Flight Headset (USAF Edition) is one such set which Tony recently got to try and found it to be a simple plug and play device that worked well and was realistic compared to actual aviation headsets.

With a little nostalgia in mind, Dominic Smith looks at a favorite Christmas present, and one of the best flight simulators...of 1990. F-19 Stealth Fighter by Microprose was state of the art in its day and provided lots of fun for flight simmers back then. Amazingly, you can still purchase it today, at a bargain price.

We continue our annual Gift Gide with REX WorldWide Airports HD. You get a package that transforms the entire look of your flight simulator (FSX or P3D). Much of your flightsim world is created from default objects, textures and lighting which this product transforms by using higher resolution and new and better looking textures. Reviewer Michael Hayward has spent some time using it and finds it to be one of the best add-ons he uses.

Now at the FlightSim.Com Store: After a long Early Access period, Just Flight announces the full release version of Air Hauler 2 is now available for FSX and Prepar3D. Air Hauler 2 builds on the addictive first edition to give you even greater control of your own global freight and passenger company, with more options, wider opportunities and infinitely greater flexibility.

VSKYLABS Aerospace Simulations announces the release of their Mini-500 helicopter. This project is part of the VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot' series, designed specifically for use with X-Plane 11.30+ cutting edge Experimental Flight Model. The Revolution Mini-500 is an American single seat light helicopter that is built from a kit.

Since its original release in early December, Flysimware has made several sets of updates to their Falcon 50 for FSX and Prepar3D. Customers can re-download the product to get the v1.6 updates and new customers will of course get the latest version.

Flysimware has released v4.0 for their Learjet 35A for FSX and Prepar3D. The update includes new features and bug fixes. New features include a new autopilot panel with real world layout, new exterior lights resized for P3D, a GPS configuration tool, combined altitude alerter and altimater gauges and more.

Obstacles & VFR landmarks - FRANCE is an add-on for Prepar3D covering the entire French territory and designed to add more than 500,000 landmarks to the scenery, including virtually all of the obstacles to navigation identified by the SIA (Service for Aeronautical Information), that have been qualified and geo-referenced.

HiFi Technologies has made a brief announcement on their Facebook page on development of Active Sky XP, their weather engine for X-Plane. They are working on the first comprehensive update with will have a variety of fixes and enhancements.

FLYT Simulations has the honor and pride in announcing the development of the Champaign city scenery and airports in the state of Illinois in the USA. For those with long memories, you'll recall that Champaign is the "home" of Flight Simulator, as it was the location of subLogic and Bruce Artwick, the original developer of the early Flight Simulator versions. The scenery will cover the entire city in detail along with two airfields and will support Prepar3D and X-Plane.

HiFi Technologies announces their Winter Sale for 2019. For a limited time, all their "Active Sky" and other products are on sale for 30% off their regular prices. These are some of the most popular add-ons for FSX and Prepar3D as they make your entire sim look better wherever you fly.

Tampa XP from Taburet is a complete scenery for the city of Tampa, day and night. It includes custom objects, custom lighting, mesh terrain and autogen blended into a photorealistic base texturing. All objects and buildings are based on real world data.

Now at the FlightSim.Com Store: After a long Early Access period, Just Flight announces the full release version of Air Hauler 2 is now available for FSX and Prepar3D. Air Hauler 2 builds on the addictive first edition to give you even greater control of your own global freight and passenger company, with more options, wider opportunities and infinitely greater flexibility.

VSKYLABS Aerospace Simulations announces the release of their Mini-500 helicopter. This project is part of the VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot' series, designed specifically for use with X-Plane 11.30+ cutting edge Experimental Flight Model. The Revolution Mini-500 is an American single seat light helicopter that is built from a kit.

Since its original release in early December, Flysimware has made several sets of updates to their Falcon 50 for FSX and Prepar3D. Customers can re-download the product to get the v1.6 updates and new customers will of course get the latest version.

Flysimware has released v4.0 for their Learjet 35A for FSX and Prepar3D. The update includes new features and bug fixes. New features include a new autopilot panel with real world layout, new exterior lights resized for P3D, a GPS configuration tool, combined altitude alerter and altimater gauges and more.

Obstacles & VFR landmarks - FRANCE is an add-on for Prepar3D covering the entire French territory and designed to add more than 500,000 landmarks to the scenery, including virtually all of the obstacles to navigation identified by the SIA (Service for Aeronautical Information), that have been qualified and geo-referenced.